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ēlĕgantia , ae, f. elegans. *
I. A being nice or particular; exquisiteness, fastidiousness (ante-class. and very rare): “ejus elegantia meam extemplo speciem spernat,Plaut. Mil. 4, 6, 20.—Far more freq.,
II. Taste, propriety, refinement, grace, elegance (cf.: gustus, sapor, judicium).
(α). With gen.: tu eloquentiam ab elegantia doctrinae segregandam putes, Cic. de Or. 1, 2, 5: “vitae,Tac. A. 14, 19: “morum,id. ib. 5, 8: “capilli (with venustas oris),Plin. 35, 10, 36, § 67: “ac subtilitas operum,id. 16, 15, 26, § 66 et saep.: “verborum Latinorum,Cic. Brut. 75, 261; cf. “scriptorum,id. Fam. 4, 4; so, “Latini sermonis,id. de Or. 2, 7, 28: “mira sermonis,Quint. 10, 1, 114: “figurarum,id. 12, 9, 6; “and transf.: Socraticorum,id. 10, 1, 83; cf. “Secundi,id. 12, 10, 11. —In plur.: “vocum verborumque,Gell. 2, 9 fin.
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (22):
    • Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 4.4
    • Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 9.20.2
    • Cicero, For Sulla, 28.79
    • Plautus, Miles Gloriosus, 4.6
    • Suetonius, Divus Augustus, 73
    • Tacitus, Annales, 14.19
    • Cicero, On Oratory, 2.7
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 16.66
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 35.67
    • Cicero, De Legibus, 3.1
    • Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum, 3.2
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 6, 3.20
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 10, 1.114
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 10, 1.83
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 10, 2.19
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 12, 10.11
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 12, 9.6
    • Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 19.4
    • Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 1.4
    • Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 2.9
    • Cicero, Brutus, 75.261
    • Cicero, Orator, 23
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